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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Moodle is a very popular e-learning tool in universities and high schools. But what does it have to offer younger students who want a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle empowers teachers to achieve all this and more and this book will show you how! This book will show complete beginners in Moodle with no technical background how to make the most of its features to enhance the learning and teaching of children aged around 7-14. This is a practical book for teachers, written by a teacher with two decades of practical experience, latterly in using Moodle to motivate younger students. Its aim is to give you some hints and advice on how to get your Moodle courses up and running with useful content that your students will actually want to go and learn from on a regular basis. We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle managed by somebody else, so you are responsible only for creating and delivering course content. Throughout the book we will be building a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14 on Rivers and Flooding It could be any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

Time for action-setting up a chat room in Moodle


Let's create a chat room where the students can have a chat even when they are not in the same classroom. This way, they can share their views, comments, and suggestions.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, go to Add an activity, and select the Chat option.

  2. 2. In the Name of this chat room field, enter an appropriate title for the discussion.

  3. 3. In the Introduction text field, type in what the discussion is going to be about.

  4. 4. For the Next chat time option, choose when you want to open the chat room.

  5. 5. For the Repeat sessions option, choose whether you want to chat regularly, or just once.

  6. 6. For the Save past sessions option, choose how long, if at all, to keep a record of the conversation.

  7. 7. It is up to you to decide whether to allow everyone to view the past sessions or not.

  8. 8. For now, you can ignore the Common module settings option.

  9. 9. Click on Save and Display.

What just happened?

We have set up the place and time on Moodle for our students...